Level Of Agility Research Articles

Agile Leadership and Perceived Career Success: The Mediating Role of Job Embeddedness

Agile leadership is an important managerial function in which responsiveness and innovation appear to be essential elements for the long-term development and success of any business. The world has become increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) during and post COVID-19. Managers are required to possess agile leadership to facilitate their employees’ successful careers. Therefore, this study aims to find out the relationship between agile leadership and career success by examining the mediation of job embeddedness in healthcare organizations. The descriptive research design and survey method were employed in this study. The data were collected by using three scales from healthcare employees in healthcare organizations in Turkey. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). The data were analysed by using SPSS and AMOS programs. The findings of this study showed that agile leadership behaviours enhance career success. Moreover, the relationship between agile leadership and career success is mediated by job embeddedness. The role of agile leadership in promoting employees’ career success has rarely been studied in the literature. This is one of the first studies to examine the effect of agile leadership on career success along with the mediating role of job embeddedness. Healthcare managers have faced many critical challenges at their workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the lens of managing efficient healthcare organizations in many contexts, this research sheds some important light on the association between agile leadership, career success, and job embeddedness. Managers with high agility levels used strategies such as group decision making, problem solving, effective internal and external communication, and adaptation to uncertain environment in order to increase their career success.

Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract

The present study drew from modern person-environment’s needs-supply fit theory and assessed the extent to which career embeddedness acted as a moderator in the link between individuals’ career agility and their perceptions of the value-oriented psychological contract. A sample of ( N = 293; mean age = 38.58 years) employees in the human resources and financial services industry participated in the study. Moderated regression results demonstrated that career embeddedness moderated the link between high levels of career agility (career navigation and agile learning) and positive perceptions of value-oriented obligated employee attitudinal inputs, including organisational obligated outcomes of job characteristics, career development opportunities, relationships, and rewards. The findings of the study inform career development support practices for the career agile employee in organisations who invest in the value-oriented psychological contract.

نموذج بنائي للعلاقة بين اللباقة الانفعالية والصمود النفسي والذكاء الانفعالي لدى طلبة الجامعة

This investigation aimed at examining emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence among university students. Also, it aimed at identifying the relationships between the variables, examining the contribution of resilience and emotional intelligence to predict emotional agility among university students. The study aimed also at testing a model structure of the emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence among university students. Sample was 322 of university students (59 males and 263 females) with mean age 25.12 and standard deviation 7.37. The study modified tools into Arabic of emotional agility by (David S. , 2016), RSA by (Friborg, Hjemdal, Martinussen, & Rosenvinge, 2003) and emotional intelligence by (Schutte N. , et al., 1989). Results showed that university students have good levels of emotional agility, resilience and emotional intelligence. No statistically significant relationships were found between the three variables, while resilience and emotional intelligence failed to predict the emotional agility. Therefore, the structure model wasn’t tested.

Business model framework for education technology entrepreneurs in South Africa

Background: Education technology (EdTech) has been proven to make a positive impact on education outcomes in developed economies. There is an immense untapped opportunity to introduce more EdTech into the basic education ecosystem to help with the education crisis in South Africa.Aim: This study aimed to develop a framework that can be used to identify key considerations for EdTech entrepreneurs to create sustainable ventures.Setting: The South African Government issued a clear e-Education policy white paper in 2004, but not enough progress has been made to improve education. The EdTech entrepreneur is the entity in the education ecosystem with the highest level of agility to take on this opportunity, if properly positioned and supported.Methods: A multi-case study approach explored inputs from small business EdTech entrepreneurs. Qualitative analysis compared empirically based results, as identified themes with three predicted propositions.Results: Four themes emerged: mature product, complex support network, multiple infrastructure considerations and multiple sources of revenue. The findings confirmed teacher distrust as having the greatest impact on value creation, mobile networks as only one of the key impacts on value delivery and both private and public sectors providing value capture opportunities.Conclusion: Education technology entrepreneurs should develop mature products that teachers can endorse; build a support network, which would include an advisory board and low-cost infrastructure providers; and source multiple revenue streams from the private and public sectors. Better government policy and procurement implementation would also enhance the provision of simpler and predictable revenue streams to EdTech providers.

‘Saying yes when you need to and no when you need to’ an interpretative phenomenological analysis on coaches’ well-being

ABSTRACT How coaches both experience and lead their own well-being has an important role to play in coaching; however, coaches’ individual well-being has gained less attention in training, discourse, or research to date. This paper intends to amend this deficit and provides an understanding and conceptual model of the dynamics in a coach’s individual well-being at work. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 18 coaches and the findings illustrate that Coaches’ well-being is not a static state. There are job demands of coaching that can impact a coach’s well-being and there is a need for coaches to balance their resources with a high level of agility. There are also deeper underlying dynamics to a coach’s well-being that are interrelated with each other; energy currents, self-regulation, and levels of well-being. The way in which coaches optimise their resources and energy and active management of self will help or hinder a coach’s well-being at work, which may be more difficult for novice coaches.

Evolution of Agile Practices during a M & A of a European and a Chinese Company

The volatile environment is nothing new, but in the last two years, when the world had to cope with a pandemic, it was the agile companies that were able to survive or even make a profit. More than ever, the business is done through projects and the practices used make the difference between being fast and agile or being a follower. The present work analyzes the presence of agile practices in the context of the merger and acquisition of a European and a Chinese company in Europe. For the assessment of the volatility of companies’ environment before and after the merger, the agility assessment framework by Z. Zhang and H. Sharifi will be used. Through the questionnaire filled in by top and middle management as well as operational level employees, it will be evident what level of agility the companies needed before and after the merger to prosper. One level lower, the agility level inside departments will be reviewed with interviews, where the presence of agile practices in projects run before, during and after the merger, using the Agile Adoption Framework - SIDKY Agile Management Index & a 5 Stage implementation process, will be assessed. The research aims to evaluate the gap between the current and the needed level of agility at the country level, as well as the evolution of agile practice in projects during the process of the two companies coming together. In the end, providing the answer to what is the highest possible level of agility the merged company can achieve.

Rope skipping as a means of increasing students' physical activity

The article investigated the degree of influence of jumping rope on the physical fitness of students. The study purpose was to determine the impact of rope skipping means on the physical preparedness of high school students. The research methods were as follows: analysis of special and scientific literature; pedagogical observation; pedagogical experiment; pedagogical testing; methods of statistical data processing - for mathematical processing of the obtained research results. The study involved 70 boys and 75 girls of 10th – 11th grades. Students were divided into four experimental and four control groups depending on age and gender. An increasing the level of endurance, speed, strength, agility, flexibility, speed and strength abilities were determined during the experiment in experimental groups of high school students. The results of testing the physical fitness indicators testify a significant improvement in the development of physical qualities of students in experimental groups under the influence of rope skipping. The physical activity of students will increase when they themselves choose an exercise program that is interesting in their opinion. Then the implementation of the complexes will become useful and unobtrusive for them. Rope skipping is exactly the kind that suits both boys and girls. He also develops all physical qualities. Rope skipping can be recommended for using in physical education process of high school students. Application of three groups of rope skipping exercises according to their difficulty in various forms of classes helps to increase the physical preparedness of students.

XAI Sustainable Human in the Loop Maintenance

The field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a relatively new approach to AI, with the aim to provide black box algorithms with human intelligible narrative functionality. It is most often in end-of-life considerations of the asset lifecycle that sustainability issues are encountered. Modern maintenance practice requires a holistic understanding of lifecycle and options for sustainable asset treatments. human in the loop solutions offer a way to leverage both machine and human skill sets to provide the next level of automaton solutions for industrial maintenance activities. This paper presents a framework for human in the loop Intelligent and Sustainable Maintenance. In bridging the gap between machines and humans XAI leverages the best of both worlds to provide a new level of agility to cyber assisted maintenance activities and full lifecycle consideration of assets; a notion that is necessary throughout the organization in the achievement of sustainability goals set by governments around the world in the achievement of a net zero carbon emission economy.

Effect of agility in different dimensions of manufacturing systems: A review

In this paper, an organized attempt has been made to describe in brief different information described in the investigation of the literature on the various facets of agility in the manufacturing system and demonstrate its interaction with different organization capabilities in manufacturing organizations. A methodical review on the concept, phraseology, and related facets of various organization capabilities and agility has also been included. Also, various methodologies that will be utilized in this research are reviewed in the literature. The literature has been reviewed on the agility concept. Different agility aspects, dimensions, nature, and terminology are covered in the literature review. Different types of organizational capabilities have been discussed and the organization capability dimensions required to achieve agility in the manufacturing system have been identified. Finally, various barriers to achieving agility have been reported and discussed. To the best knowledge of authors, this work is the improved attempt to hire and study the past and present level of agility in manufacturing systems. The findings of this study will support academics and executives in AM implementation in a smoother and effective way in manufacturing industries.

MetaAnalyser - A Concept and Toolkit for Enablement of Digital Twin

Digital Twin (DT) has promising impact on the life cycle management of assets in manufacturing industry. The concept of DT has become possible with digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Data driven Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, can enhance the performance of the DT. To replicate a dynamic system, the DT should continuously receive and process incoming data in real-time. However, every time that the system receives new incoming datasets, the challenges of ML such as data preparation, feature selection, model selection and performance evaluation, slow down the development process of DT. This paper proposes a MetaAnalyser platform that automates these steps for incoming datasets in real-time. The MetaAnalyser platform through automating data preparation, feature selection, model selection and performance evaluation, is expected to increase the level of agility in the development process of DT and the efficiency of the DT during its lifecycle. The MetaAnalyser platform is demonstrated in this paper by ranking the features that affect the arrival delays in trains and ranking regression models based on their performance on the dataset.

Industry-Academia Research toward Future Network Intelligence: The NG-CDI Prosperity Partnership

Ever since the first automation provided by the introduction of the Strowger telephone exchange in the late 19th century, networks have been increasingly automated. Fast forward to 2022, and the challenge facing network providers is scaling up this level of automation considering massive increases in complexity, new levels of agility to operate services, and rising demand from customers within the modern telecommunications ecosystem. This article describes a significant new industry-academia partnership to address these challenges: Next Generation Converged Digital Infrastructure (NG-CDI) is creating a vision for the building and operation of a future-proof network infrastructure and its autonomic management. In this article, we highlight three exemplar activities within the NG-CDI research program that illustrate the benefits of taking a highly collaborative interdisciplinary approach and show how academia and industry working closely together have delivered a range of direct and positive impacts on business.

ASSESING CIVIL SERVICE AGILITY AHEAD TO WORK FROM ANYWHERE (Study at: Education, Youth and Sports Office of Bali Province 2022)

This study aims to determine the level of agility of the State Civil Administration or Civil Servant (ASN) of Education, Youth And Sports Office (Disdikpora) of Bali Province in welcoming Work From Anywhere, the extent to which Disdikpora is prepared to realize ASN agility, and what are the challenges faced by Bali Disdikpora in welcoming WFA. The design used in descriptive analytic qualitative by using a cross sectional study design. The selection of informants was done by purposive sampling. The informants in this study included the criteria for structural officials and 3 staff within the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of the Province of Bali. Data analysis technique, namely: data reduction, data display, and verification. The results of the study show that: 1) the level of agility of the Disdikpora ASN in Bali Province can be said to be adequate, 2) the readiness of the ASN Disdikpora agility can be said to be adewquate and 3) the challenges faced by Disdikpora is the existence of an immigrant generation who is not familiar with the use of information technology so that the absorption of information delivery related to applications and performance support devices is experiencing problems.

The Influence of Age Factor and Sports Specialization on the Level of Agility in Sports Games

"Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the influence of age factors and the type of sports specialization on performances in planned and reactive agility. The object of the research was 129 players of football, volleyball, basketball and handball from sports clubs in Nitra and its surroundings in the categories of boys U15 (x ̅ = 14.95r) and boys U 17 (x ̅ = 16.88r). Metodology: The level of planned agility (PA) was diagnosed by the Illinois test and the level of reactive agility (RA) by the Fitro agility Check test. Results: The results showed the importance of both factors (Sport specialization and age) on performance in PA and RA, higher values (p) for the age factor (p <0.05). Conclusions: The biological mean (age) has affected performance in RA more strongly than a type of sports game. Post hoc tests between groups (sport specialization) confirmed the statistical significance of differences between sports games to the detriment of basketball (p <0.01). Keywords: planned agility, reactive agility, sport games "

The quality of care with the use of information technology in the professional school Doutor José Alves da Silveira in Quixeramobim – Ceará

Over the years the quality of care in institutional organizations has been seen as a need for improvement and full improvement for citizens to enjoy the services provided with zeal, strife for efficiency and effectiveness, structuring elements for an administration focused not only on theories, but also on results. In this context, in order to reduce the impasses arising from the quality of care, the research question arose: What influence do information technologies have to boost the quality of care at the Professional School Doutor José Alves da Silveira? This article highlights the importance of the role of quality of care with the use of information technology at the Professional School Doutor José Alves da Silveira in Quixeramobim Ceará, with the objective of describing the processes related to quality management in care from the implementation of information technologies, analyzing the changes promoted in the quality of care from the accused speech of teachers and comparing the previous and current situation of the quality of care through the analysis of the data extracted in the above mentioned objectives. To meet the purposes of this study, the methods and techniques used were exploratory research with a qualitative approach, using the interview method and, research instrument, the questionnaire, with five open questions sent to twelve class directors through the google form. The participant observation method was also used, which aims to capture the meanings and subjective experiences of those who intervene in the process of social interaction. The interviewees were chosen for convenience and sampling using the saturation technique. The results collected were compared by the teachers' statements, perceiving the similarities in the answers. It is concluded that the quality of care combined with information technologies were satisfactory, in improving the services provided to users increasing the level of satisfaction and agility, in the way of perceiving the processes of technological innovation to make the organization an interactive space with more dialogue, interaction and agility in the flow of processes.

On the parametrisation of motion kinematics for experimental aerodynamic optimisation

The levels of agility and flight or swimming performance demonstrated by insects, birds, fish, and even some aquatic invertebrates, are often vastly superior to what even the most advanced human-engineered vehicles operating in the same regimes are capable of. Key to this superior locomotion is the animal's manipulation of the generation and shedding of vortices through optimal control of their motion kinematics. Many research efforts related to biological and bio-inspired propulsion focus on understanding the influence of the motion kinematics on the propulsion performance and on optimising the kinematics to improve efficiency or manoeuvrability. One of the first challenges to tackle when conducting a numerical or experimental optimisation of motion kinematics of objects moving through a fluid is the parameterisation of the motion kinematics. In this paper, we present three different approaches to parameterise kinematics, using a set of control points that are connected by a spline interpolation, a finite Fourier series, and a reduced order modal reconstruction based on a proper orthogonal decomposition of a set of random walk trajectories. We compare the results and performance of the different parameterisations for the example of an experimental multi-objective optimisation of the pitching kinematics of a robotic flapping wing device. The optimisation was conducted using a genetic algorithm with the objective to maximise stroke average lift and efficiency. The performance is evaluated with regard to the diversity of the randomly created initial populations, the convergence behaviour of the optimisation, and the final Pareto fronts with their corresponding fitness values.

Digital supply chain management in the COVID-19 crisis: An asset orchestration perspective

Although many firms are actively deploying various digital technology (DT) assets across their supply chains to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations, whether these DT assets are truly helpful remains unclear. To disentangle this puzzle, we investigate whether firms that have higher levels of DT asset deployment achieve better supply chain performance in the COVID-19 crisis than firms with lower levels. From an asset orchestration perspective, we focus on two dimensions of DT asset deployment: breadth and depth, which reflect the scope and scale of DT assets, respectively. The empirical results from 175 Chinese firms that have deployed DT assets to varying degrees reveal that both the breadth and the depth of DT asset deployment show positive relationships with supply chain visibility. In contrast, the depth but not the breadth of DT asset deployment poses a positive relationship with supply chain agility. Most importantly, high levels of supply chain visibility and supply chain agility were prerequisites for excellent supply chain performance in the COVID-19 crisis. We contribute to the digital supply chain management literature by uncovering the mechanism through which DT asset deployment generates impacts on supply chain performance from an asset orchestration perspective. Our study also assists firms in improving their digital transformation strategies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Comprehensive Study of the Market Determinants Impacting Sustainable Packaging

The packaging industry has considerably been witnessing significant growth over the past few years. In today's scenario, incorporating sustainable practices in packaging businesses is becoming a standard. Whether it is due to the preferences of manufacturers, regulatory standards, consumer pressure, or retailer's choice, the eco-friendly packaging solutions are increasingly attaining a rise in demand. Shifting trends towards environmental efficiency have led to an increase in focus on fewer resources, lesser energy, as well as a smaller footprint among various packaging businesses. In order to cater to the potential pressure stemming from these trends, advanced level of agility and technological innovation is gaining traction. Hence, re-inventing and re-thinking by packaging industries poses strong and concrete opportunities for the transformational shift towards sustainability solutions thereby also eliminating the plastic packaging issues in different sectors. This paper discusses the determinants impacting sustainable packaging along with the market analysis for the same.

The mediating effect of self-leadership on the media literacy and learning agility of nursing students based on the experiences of online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of self-leadership on the relationship between media literacy and learning agility in nursing students based on their experiences in online classes during the Coronavirus Disease-19 pandemic.Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted among 165 nursing students from four universities in Busan. Data were collected from June 2 to 13, 2021, and was analyzed using a t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 26.0.Results: Significant relationships were found between learning agility and media literacy (r=.62,p<.001), between learning agility and self-leadership (r=.58, p<.001), and between media literacy and self-leadership (r=.53, p<.001). Additionally, self-leadership had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between media literacy and learning agility (Z=4.30, p<.001); its explanatory power was 46.0%.Conclusion: These results indicate that interventions to increase the level of media literacy, along with self-leadership, are necessary to improve the level of learning agility of nursing students who will be essential human resources in a rapidly changing healthcare field.

Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility

The interplay between organization practices and innovation is highly relevant in modern business. This paper analyses whether a specific organizational dimension, namely workforce agility, affects innovative performance. We rationalize this effect within an organizational economics perspective that stresses the role of behavioural motives and human attitudes in the innovation process. In particular, we distinguish the contribution of two components: time agility and task agility. For both of them, we hypothesize that a higher level of agility is associated with stronger employees’ commitment, which in turn stimulate creativity and innovation. Using a sample of nearly 18,000 private-sector workplaces in 28 countries, we report conditional correlations between workforce agility and innovation that are consistent with our framework. Establishments with higher workforce agility are more likely to innovate. This relationship is particularly strong in the case of task agility, especially for process innovation. Moreover, the contribution of agility-related practices tends to be weaker (although not absent) in industries where specialized and technical expertise is more relevant for innovation. The analysis of managers’ perceptions about internal working climate and employees’ commitment suggest that its positive effect on innovation is likely to be driven by the fact that workforce agility improves work motivation at the workplace, favouring innovation-oriented behaviours. Managerial and policy implications are discussed.

Low performance-related physical fitness levels are associated with clustered cardiometabolic risk score in schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study

PurposeThe study aim was to verify if there were associations between performance-related physical fitness levels and the clustered cardiometabolic risk score among children and adolescents.MethodsThe cross-sectional study involved 1200 (655 females) children and adolescents aged 7–17 years. Performancerelated physical fitness levels (upper limb strength [ULS], lower limb strength [LLS], agility, speed, and cardiorespiratory fitness [CRF]) were evaluated and categorized as healthy or unhealthy levels. Waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, glucose, and blood lipoprotein (triglycerides, total cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) were measured. The clustered cardiometabolic risk score constituted the sum of internationally-derived standardized values (z-scores) for each risk factor divided by 5. Associations between performance-related physical fitness levels and the clustered cardiometabolic risk score were determined with linear regression models.ResultsParticipants with healthy ULS levels exhibited a less favourable clustered cardiometabolic risk score, whereas healthy levels of LLS, agility (only in girls), and CRF (only in boys) were related with a more favourable clustered cardiometabolic risk score. ULS (β: –0.091 [95% CI: –0.120; –0.062]), LLS (β: –0.272 [95% CI: –0.368; –0.177]), and CRF (β: –0.218 [95% CI: –0.324; –0.112]) were inversely associated with the clustered cardiometabolic risk score, while agility (β: 0.112 [95% CI: 0.082; 0.142]) and speed (β: 0.079 [95% CI: 0.039; 0.119]) demonstrated a positive association with the clustered cardiometabolic risk score.ConclusionsOur results emphasize the importance of following moderate-to-vigorous physical activity guidelines to better develop physical fitness levels for the maintenance of cardiometabolic health during childhood and adolescence.